Squadrons depart on joint annual tour

Two aerial port squadrons from the 433rd Airlift Wing on Port San Antonio departed March 9 for training in South Carolina and Delaware.

Two aerial port squadrons from the 433rd Airlift Wing on Port San...

Two aerial port squadrons from the 433rd Airlift Wing at Port San Antonio departed to the East Coast March 9, making it for the first time in the wing's history that both Aerial Port Squadrons performed an annual tour in unison. It also becomes the largest training mission ever between the two APS squadrons.

Approximately 93 members — 34 from the 26th APS and 59 from the 74th APS — boarded a C-17 flown into San Antonio from Joint Base Charleston to assist active duty at the 437th APS, Joint Base Charleston and the 436th APS at Dover Air Force Base.

"This training will improve our airmen' effectiveness,” said Lt. Col. J.D. Scott, commander of the 26th APS. “This annual tour gives us an opportunity to accomplish training at a different location that we are not able to accomplish here at Lackland.”